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Originally Posted by IliketoPuck
So in all honesty how would this even be enforced?
Do you get a bunch of cops to go around checking people's ipod's for songs that may or may not be downloaded/illegally security broken? What a farce this is going to turn into.
Couldn't you also make the argument that a company like Apple is complicit in encouraging users to take songs and media and put them on the devices in the first place?
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There are entire companies dedicated to this kind of thing. They will put their own special clients into torrents and other P2P networks and farm IP addresses of people who connect to their special client.
Some will even upload a poisoned version of the movie/cd/whatever, one that appears complete but never actually does finish, so while people out there are downloading they never get what they want and their IP gets farmed as well.
There are even blacklists of known IPs these companies use that people compile in an effort to make sure their computer never connects to one of these "honey pots".
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Originally Posted by nik-
Can ISP's charge an extra fee to those willing to pay it to keep their info secret?
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I guess they could say they could keep the information secret if asked, but if there was a court order then they'd have to obey the law no matter how much a client paid I would think.
Maybe an extra fee for an ISP that intentionally never keeps any logs.
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Originally Posted by AC
I think enforcement is dependent almost entirely upon ISP's reporting their own clients.
Though I could be wrong.
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Yup, you have to correlate the IP address and the person somehow, and the easiest way is through the ISP. Though not the only way, maybe Sony is logging all the IPs going to my store to buy a digital camera and correlating that purchase information with downloaders?
But again if they have a court order to disclose because someone broke the law, they have to give up the info don't they?